Tari Tari
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is an average high school student.
Okay, since this undoubtedly is going to be compared to Hana-Saku Iroha, let me list the biggest difference between these two series right away: Tari Tari has no Ohana; the kind of character who foces herself on everyone’s problems and who keeps pushing everyone forward. Instead, this episode brought a bunch of characters with all their unrelated issues together. There is a guy who is the sole member of a badminton club, there is a girl who isn’t allowed to sing in her choir club, those kinds of issues. There also is a lot of emphasis on random scenes that don’t really amount to anything, but te animation and dialogue outside of the drama are definitely believable. As for the drama itself… I’m not yet sold. There is potential, but the creators still eed towork a bit on the cast by creating more interesting problems and making the characters slightly less annoying. Right now there also was no remakable chemistry between most of them, and I mostly blame the rather annoying blond girl for that. She tried a bit too hard in this episode. Thebits around the pregnant teacher were interesting though.
OP: A rather cheesy opening.
ED: Also very unremarkable.
Potential: 70%
Campione!
Short Synopsis: Our lead character possesses the magical artifact of DOOM
This episode started with one of the most cliched ways out there for an adventure series like this: there is this seemingly average guy who gets bumped into by a spunky female who starts looking down on him. I was waiting for everything to fall apart, and it sortof did when they brought in alcohol from out of nowhere and the guy ended up stripping her. Yes, the fanservice in this show is really bad and forced. Surprisingly though, after that this episode did pick itself back up and delivered an action-packed finale that balanced the action quite well with the exposition. The male lead reveals that he can ctually do things on his own as weell and while the character-designs in this series are pretty bad, but the monster designs are actually quite well done. The romance came from absolutely bloody nowhere, though. One moment they were just talking to each other, the next goes “oh hey, we’re a couple now!”
Potential: 50%
Kokoro Connect
Short Synopsis: Our lead characters are a bunch of high schoolers.
So, there was a pre-air of the first half of the first Kokoro Connect episode. I have no idea what happened to the second half, but I might as well check this out. And unfortunately, this has Silver Link written all over it: the set-ups have potential, but any potential is ruined by incredibly annoying and badly acted characters. They’re still in their shaft-wannabe phase, in a bit of a different way than usual. The visuals are more reminiscent of Kyoani-series, while the dialogue is typical Shaft. The character sin this episode just wouldn’t shut up, and even though the series started well in its prequel, once the series actually started they wasted no time in making really bad fanservice jokes. The biggest insult was that this half-episode wasn’t really about anything, other than a REALLY BAD FANSERVICE JOKE. I see no potential whatsoever in this one.
Potential: 0%
Jeez, it wasn’t that bad..and I’m sure anyone having their body swapped with the opposite gender spontaneously would be a little curious, come on look at Nazo no Kanojo X that show does the same thing but worse (and I’m not liking how it’s been so far).
I really don’t get your constant “badly acted characters” phrase you use every time a series has decent characters. The seiyuus were good, maybe a little bland…but badly acted? No. It’s the first episode, of course there’s going to be some dialogue on who the characters are and what the show is about. Jeez, it’s like you copy pasted phrases like “badly acted characters” from other reviews and pasted them here.
And I thought I complained a lot…I’m glad I don’t write like this. No offense, but you’re a bit too negative in these reviews (though Aroduc/Tenka Seiha may be the most obnoxiously pessimistic and whiny blogger I’ve ever seen)
Depending on how they make use of this body swapping stuff as the series goes on this might turn into something amusing.
This episode was a run of the mill introduction. This one has the writer of the key stories working on it so maybe he/she can rub off positively on it, I know not alot on here like key but for me its something that makes me want to give this a chance and I also like romcoms.
The voice acting here isn’t as good as a lot of shows but I thought it was much worse in C3, another silver link series.
I do think that introductions as aroduc has said before should lean towards more show rather than tell.
As for webkids comment I see Mysterious girlfriend x more of an anti-romcom romcom if that makes any sense.
I think that this issue of “the voice actors are bad” is more to do with the character stereotypes and voice direction rather than the actors themselves. As for curiosity from sudden gender swapping from many teenagers points of view I think that would have been a normal reaction of many of them though not something I would have done.
It’s indeed something that the typical high school boy would do, yes. As for the question of whether I would want to watch that though.. that’s a different story.
I don’t even think that last scene was supposed to be a joke, as much as an obvious logical conclusion of the whole surprise body swapping scene, that they were expected to go through with. Ending there didn’t help the pre-air’s case, but in a whole episode’s context, where the plot would have instantly continued with them trying to figure out what happened, it would probably fel less like it was “wasn’t really about anything”, than that one 20-second scene.
Also, the dialogue was like that in the manga (and I presume the LN), Shaft-imitation has nothing to do with it. And it has K-on’s character designer but that’s all it has to do with KyoAni, the backround art and the details were completely different.
This is yet another light novel adaptation of this year(Though this book is ridiculously hard to read due to the switches).
If you’ve only watched the first 11 minutes, I’d say you’ve made a hasty judgement thinking that this will be full of fan serving hijinks. This is the episode that introduce you to the characters as they’re seen, you get a further exploration with the switches.
Though i do have to say, the novel was not exceptionally compelling plot wise other than a big plotwist toward the end.
*sigh* another show u say which is bad and which will probably sell very well and will probably be very good and seriously don’t rate a series by watching only 10 mins sheesh -,-
I usually agree with psgels. This is the rare exception.
Although I can foresee problems you illustrate, none of them are present of severe enough to warrant such a low rating. Don’t know what you mean by weakly acted characters or really bad fanservice.
Watch more, then revise the rating.
Another case of ‘you can’t preview a show by only watching its first half-episode!’ I’d personally wait several episodes before deciding to watch onwards or to drop, if only to see whether these ‘it gets better, I swear’ remarks hold water. I wouldn’t expect that they don’t.
Yo, psgels, if you don’t like a show after the first half episode, then that show is actually doing a bad job, not you. You’ve got to grab viewers right at the start, not hope they stick around so it might get better. First impressions are everything. Don’t listen to the whiners up there, if you’re not into it you’re not into it.
This. Exactly why AKB0048 sucks.
Yea…and then we get shows like Zetman which rose our expectations based on the first episode and failed to live up to them ever since. That is really a sad way of looking at things since I’ve seen a ton of great anime that had slow starts.
AT LEAST watch the entire first episode so it can at least show more characters reacting and we may see what this show is actually going to be about. If it still seems stupid and fanservice-y, fine, but it may get more interesting.
Always give at least the first episode if you seriously plan on giving an anime a chance.
I’ve got to admit – I’ve dropped countless series simply from watching ten minutes of them. He almost beat my record.
“dialogue is typical Shaft”
What the fuck I’m reading, seriously, because I thought that SHAFT was an ANIMATION Studio.
They write Light Novels now or what? Hahahah
Ah Champione, even by adaptation standard they did a ridiculously terrible job in changing the minor things in the plot and a extremely rushed pacing made it even worse while the light novel itself is already somewhat generic.
I’ll wait to peek at the rest of the shows this season to see If I watch Campione, It might be fun.
I just had a look at this Campione! show, and I really have to say it is totally terrible. There is a bunch of facts why. Overflowing with cliques, it looks terribly like an to aru majutsu no index clone, blatant fanservice, horrible pacing, weak character design, just to name a few. Psgels really has mercy with the show by giving a 50% potential.
I just want to point this out. When I heard the chorus sing that song near the beginning, it sounded very familiar. And you know why? Because it’s the opening song of True Tears. Even though I watched True Tears like 2 years ago, I still remember!!!!
Of Tari Tari by the way.
2 years? Didnt True tears come out in 2008, so that would be 4 years. Unless you mean you actually only watched it in 2010?
yeah it did. just as you said, i didn’t watch it until 2010.
who said that we have to watch anime as it comes out?
When I heard the true tears song I was like wait a minute, I know this! Hahaha took me a while to remember what it was from but I was like of course hahaha true tears cameo <3
I don’t really think you can say it has 0% potential because 0% would mean the show was nothing, it has potential because it’s something. So really I think the post about Kokomo connect is wrong.
Always funny to see people bitch about how not everyone enjoys their bland moe crap shows.
Tari Tari made me think that the only foreigners that transfer to Japanese schools are nutjobs. Sometimes i wish they would portrait the cultural differences more realistically without these bizarre extremes.
Campione is mindless action and echi but is has such a high pace + in your face fanservice, that I’ll probably watch this as guilty pleasure of the season.
“Tari Tari has no Ohana; the kind of character who foces herself on everyone’s problems and who keeps pushing everyone forward.”
Perhaps, but the short choir girl (Konatsu) definitely seems like the “catalyst” character who is starting her own club; that’s certainly what the end of the episode portended by having everyone bump into each other in the very park where she’s performing.
Hanasaku Iroha’s first episode has this one beat (it just had a bigger scale and led to more immediate emotional investment on our part), but this was still a promising start. A little more variety in the character design would’ve been welcome; Wakana and Sawa look too much alike.
I could’ve swear she behaves just like Ohana
I think Tari Tari showed off all the character in episode one within like a minute and a half while Hanasaku really focused on Ohana’s perspective. I really prefer the latter
Although, I’m not going to lie, If it wasn’t for Ko-chan’s appearances, I’d have drop that series halfway.
For those who care, Campione not had a terrible pace and plot, but also an horrible italian pronunciation..
Tari Tari was suspiciously dull, so I checked it on ANN… and Mari Okada isn’t writing it! I thought she would! …why did I think she would anyway? *cough*
…either way, not interested anymore.
And that choir scene, that is not how highschool girls sound.